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Vinny Golia: Feeding Frenzy
by Farrell Lowe
On Feeding Frenzy multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia explores the borders between modern classical music and modern jazz. He has chosen a string quartet to accompany him on his forays through the dizzying woodwind (various flutes and clarinets) forests he has built for this project. They start with “Title Sequence," a thorny hedgerow of Penderecki-like string and Gershwin-esque ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Luminous Axis
by Farrell Lowe
Wadada Leo Smith has been a leading proponent of the creation of a new world music since the late '60s, in confluence with Chicago's AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Much like Don Cherry, Smith draws from a broad palate of world musics, and he's a musical pioneer of the highest order.Luminous ...
DJ Spooky: Dubtometry
by Farrell Lowe
This is such an exciting time in the world of modern jazz. We are in the midst of a new wave of fusion where jazz artists unabashedly embrace current pop and world music sound forms. When Miles Davis went electric in the Sixties, it caused quite a stir; I can only hope this new brand of ...
Splinter Group: Blowing Down Blue Sky
by Farrell Lowe
This album is cool! Sorta like crashing down your favorite alley in the back seat of Satan's Cadillac with the top down and the radio tuned to a shortwave criss-cross. Imagine hearing fuzzy nods to the likes of Can circa '74, Fred Frith guitar drones, strange Casiotone renditions of Fontana Mix, Jannick Top's magnetic bass lines, ...
Bert Turetzky / Mike Wofford: Transition & Transformation
by Farrell Lowe
Within seconds of hearing the opening strains of this album, it's obvious that Bert Turetzky and Mike Wofford are serious cats. At once visceral, studied, and passionate, the music leaps out of the speakers like a force of nature. Even when they cover tunes by Monk, Mingus, or Oscar Pettiford, the results are startlingly original. They ...
Mark Trayle / Vinny Golia: Music For Electronics & Woodwinds
by Farrell Lowe
What do you get when you cross a cutting edge real-time electronics artist with a world-class woodwinds artist? You could get a cold academic study in sound processing that would be “interesting," or you could get a hairy two-headed goat that talks incessantly but never listens to what its other half is saying. Or you could ...
John Zorn: IAO-Music in Sacred Light
by Farrell Lowe
An album of ritual, Magick, possible bloodletting, sex, and incantations, this recording is the aural equivalent of film director Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. As usual, John Zorn incorporates a wide array of influences and musical styles in IAO. To his credit, he never loses sight of his reason for creating the music in the first ...
Susie Ibarra Trio: Songbird Suite
by Farrell Lowe
Songbird Suite offers some of the most direct and heartfelt music you could ever want to hear. Honestly. The depth of these pieces is reflected in just about every aspect of recording. For instance, the very title of the album acts as a unifying theme throughout the individual pieces. Every song seems imbued with bird-like qualities... ...
County Road X: County Road X
by Farrell Lowe
County Road X is the first recorded example of what keyboardist/composer Erik Deutsch lovingly dubs "trailer park jazz." While his term may fit the essence of the music on this disc, I would offer a different tag to describe it...cinematic Americana. Imagine a highly spirited, fleshed-out redux of Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden's Beyond the Missouri ...
DJ Krush: The Message at the Depth
by Farrell Lowe
I'm not saying it's jazz, and I ain't saying it's not, but this is one curious album. If you're interested in the latest developments in the "Jazztronica" shoot off the jazz tree (or modern music-making in general) then DJ Krush must be reckoned with. Play this recording next to recent albums by Matthew Shipp, Dave Douglas, ...
